descendance
\de.sɑ̃.dɑ̃s\
The verdict
“descendance” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,108. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,108
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Progéniture, ensemble des individus issus d’une reproduction sexuée ou asexuée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-descendance · descendance · French
descendance · rank #16,108 · 17 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,108
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dem
Nearest frequency peer: dem (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « descendance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Cristina
Cristina
83,896 corpus weight
- curie
curie
83,895 corpus weight
- dem
dem
83,894 corpus weight
- descendance
descendance
83,893 corpus weight
- discernement
discernement
83,892 corpus weight
- disputent
disputent
83,891 corpus weight
What this shows « descendance » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | descendance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.sɑ̃.dɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #16,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « descendance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around descendance (IPA \de.sɑ̃.dɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,108 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for descendance, with forms such as "ddescendance", "decsendance", and "desccendance". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "descendant", "descendants", "descendante", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is descendance, spelled D-E-S-C-E-N-D-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Progéniture, ensemble des individus issus d’une reproduction sexuée ou asexuée.
- 2Lignée généalogique, lignage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how descendance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Leblond, […], a calculé la corrélation entre taux butyreux et teneur en matières azotées pour les descendances des 20 taureaux Frisons et des 21 taureaux Normands […].
Graines ailées, aigrettées, duvetées, enveloppées de gourmandise et en appelant à l'oiseau ! de quelle ingéniosité fait preuve chaque plante pour éparpiller le plus loin possible d’elle sa descendance !
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddescendance
- decsendance
- desccendance
- descednance
- descenadnce
- descendacne
- descendancce
- descendanec
- descendannce
- descenddance
- descendnace
- descenndance
- descnedance
- desecndance
- desscendance
- dsecendance
- edscendance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of descendance - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).